1st day of chinese new year. i look like i have something on my boob.
second day. mom in the car.
me. and my pregnant top. which nobody can see in this pic.
reunion diner.
offering oranges to parents for the angpow. hoho.
okayy. pics are completely not in order. oh well. but here's a few. i got my long awaited pay today! actually, it's only 3/4 of my pay because of the company's cycle. but that's okay! so i withdrew 300 gleefully. 200 for my parents. and a hundred for this week's expenses. it actually feels quite nice giving money to my parents.
and i decided i had to buy smt with my first pay, so i bought a cheap necklace for myself.
dad and i watched fearless today. it's alright. i thought it was the movie was quite bland. just a couple of cool puglistic scenes.
and so now i'm back home. being very very very bored. with four big bad ass pimples on my face.
i've got new office clothes for tmr too! hoho.

happy lunar new year!
reunion dinner was as usual, steamboat. that left me feeling really bloated and pukish. i think i ate overate and stuffed myself with too much sashimi, and abalone.
and then today we visited my grandmother. my sister and i drove over to tampines mall because we were quite bored, the relatives werent there yet. and nothing was opened, except for fast food and the arcade. and then we played pool there. where i think we were quite embarrasing. hoho. but it was fun.
and then we gathered around for the yusheng. and it was hilarious. imagine having 20 pple crowded around a plate of yusheng. and the bits of yusheng just flew out everywhere, and some landed on my auntie's face, which was really funny.
ah, i'm so tired from visiting. and i need more cny clothes. rah.

ah! I HAVENT BEEN PAID YET!
okayy. i am still waiting for my first pay. hello company and hello dbs. please hurry up pay me.
and now i am worried that i might have given the wrong bank details etc etc.

so anyway i met up with glenda lee and we ate at the soup spoon. i think that's what they called it. glenda is a bored and greedy girl. haha. and after that with yash at her ice cream company! very nice ice cream, i was offered. so it was quite fun seeing the both of them.

and i bought shoes. while waiting for glenda.

and then i went over to lil india to thread my brows. and i was hanging around there for a while. i went to the second level of tekka market. but everything looks the same. so i got abit lost for a while. reminded me of the market in laos, except this one didnt have fake goods and they sold saris and all sorts of traditional indian clothes in it.
and i was walking aimlessly around, got lost, end up outside a place called gandhi restaurant and i got very worried for myself.

and finally, the very late haynes appeared. like some diva like that. and i went to play xbox. what a travesty. i was surrounded by teenage boys and i played some game that had rappers beating each other up. haha i would have much preferred it if there were female characters in a game. like how i always chose chunli when i played street fighter about a decade ago. ahha. or yellow ranger when i played power rangers!! haha i am so embarassing.

okayokay. i am tired. byee.

today was a good day at work. for a start, i wasnt sprinting to the toilet to crap.
and then we went to tekka market to buy organs, so that was a nice break from work.
after which we were taught how to cut the heart--and even longer break from work.
and then i had paris duty, but because my department had a mini celebration for the leaving interns, yms got someone to replace me. so that was even better. and it was a mini ben&jerry's ice cream party! so yes, for a while we were just sitting at the tables eating lovely b&j with waffle biscuits. and then after that, it was time for me to knock off!
oh and i decided next time they send me off to buy organs, i shall go thread my brows at the same time. because the salon is like right across the market. wee.

terrible, terrible day. my tummy aches, i'm using crapping 6 times a day. i want to puke all the subway cookies which i gorged on this afternoon and my work is damn boring. so i was just shuttling in between the office and the toilet today.
tomorrow i'll be at tekka market buying organs. with marybelle or merwyn. victoria and i. anyway, i think victoria can be quite funny at times, because she says the oddest random things without meaning to, and it cracks me up. haha.
and i sat outside today. it's alright sitting outside, less stifling. but there's no music so i become half-dead from boredom.
and when i get uni letters in the mailbox, i get very excited. and i'll read their letters of acceptance with glee. but after that i just become very sad and depressed because i might never be able to study in those lovely colleges. not without money.
ucl is very, very pretty. i want to study there.
rah. :(

random snippets of jc life. sdba. where me and tammy competed in the rj13. nationals. our own post-nats party at traders. trainings at kallang, then macritchie. surprisingly successful class outing to sentosa. racial harmony. where i was in this ridiculously bright yellow outfit. was looking at my old photos in shutterfly. maybe i'll do a collage, but i dont know how. but meanwhile, those hundred plus photos will suffice. so yes, jc was fun. now it's just work. bleagh.

okayy. i just realized that i have many many essays to write if i'm going to apply for scholarships. it's like, applying to another 10 us universities.

my dad might be getting a new car. and my sister's sharing the cost. so there's no way in hell either one of them will let me drive the car if i do get my license. so i dont think i'll learn to drive. if we do change cars, the new one will be interesting. because my sister wants a red mazda. and it's just odd picturing my dad drive a red car.
dont think sharing a car will ever work. not even when u're husband and wife. well, unless you work in the same place and spend every minute with each other, then maybe.

watched cinderella man today on dvd. never was a fan of russell crowe, but i really liked him in the show. and he was somewhat goodlooking, somehow in some way. haha.although i always thought he looked like shit. and never quite understood what was the fuss abt him. now i do. i think the next dvd i'm going to borrow is garden state. they never released it here i think.

high road by fort minor and john legend is really nice.

geishas!

hokay! so now i think gongli is the hottest actress around now! oh my oh my. she outclasses zhangziyi in the movie. i read the book a really long time ago so i forgot everything. i never seem to remember anything. but i certainly dont remember it being a happy ending. oh well. but i dont know where's the book anymore.
the kimonoes are really pretty. but thank goodness i'm not born in that era in japan. because there's no way i can totter around in those wooden clogs and look elegant. haha. i think those ridiculous footwear eventually evolved to platforms. haha.
rah. i feel like a hermit! havent met my friends in a long, long while. i talk to them online and sms. but i havent seen them. so yes, i must do some meeting up soon! after my first pay. because right now i'm too poor to do any meeting up. sad eh.
and right now i'm too busy/tired to take driving lessons. and too poor. my parents want me to pay! and u know how exorbidant the fees are. and with my attitutde (and aptitude) i'll doubt i'll be driving any time soon. i mean, it's far easier sticking ur hand out and pay someone to shuttle u around than getting a car and drive yourself around. everybody knows how expensive petrol and cars are over here. rah.
okay here is the list of people i wanna see soon! saralow, haowen, classmates and the whole canoeing gang! because i was mia at the last canoeing gathering.
pffpht.

yep so there was a meeting today. the usual thurs meeting where teachers gather around. and where interns like us just sit there and distribute stuff.
so obviously i brought other stuff to do at the meeting and i wasnt quite listening, until jc suddenly asked for my opinion on some physics question. cuz he doesnt know the names of any other interns. and goodness me, i was so stunned to see all twenty plus teacher's eyes on me. and thank goodness i could give a sound opinion on the problem, so yes, i didnt humiliate myself. or so i hope.
then later jen decided since i took physics s i would know how to vet that problematic energy question. but i couldnt so i just told her to pass it to ms to do it. primary school kids learn so much these days it's scary. they learn about life science etc. and the parts of a heart. i remember tracing stupid capillaries for their worksheets today. i didnt even know capillaries were called capillaries in primary school!
and i cant believe they have so many classes for primary ones. it's quite sad i think, to have math&science tuition when u're p1. okay, i had chinese. but chinese is chinese. it's different. and i was a completely disaster at chinese, plus if i had continued to suck at chinese i wouldnt have been able to assimilate with the rest at my primary school. i wouldnt want to pile my children with tuition when they're so young. i wouldnt want to do the whole singaporean parent thing, where they send their kids to every single tuition possible. at least, i hope i wont be like that. it's hard to say now though. hurh.
i want to watch memoirs of a geisha and oogle at gongli and zhangziyi. they have porcelain skin. i want porcelain skin too!

hullo. yikes i gotta read up on my olevel bio for the dissection programme come june! merwyn and marybelle showed us the dissection stuff today. and i helped to watch the small intestines. haha. the sink was all bloody with lungs and stomach and brains and pig's skull. and it stank so bad. but the whole programme was pretty interesting. but all i can remember are bits of information here and there. like the medulla oblongata or the aorta, or the vena cava or smt. hoho.
cheryl flies off this weekend to the uk for interviews. so i'll be lonely all over again. and worse, jeslyn the perm staff whose desk i'm occupying will be back! so i'll probably have to sit outside. darn.
and i'm thinking what i should do with my first pay. happy thoughts indeed. i wanna splurge on smt really nicee. like a kate spade wallet, or a balenciaga bag. but i doubt i can afford the latter.
and my mp3 player is not working. i only discovered the songs i uploaded earlier are completely missing. and my playlists are gone!
on a brighter note though, i got a conditional offer from ucl. heh.

haha. today jc came to talk to me. he is the ceo of the company and he talks to all the interns once.
and he was just asking me regular questions. like how's rj and how's uni apps and everything. then he asked about my class. and we just talked until somehow i revealed that i was attached. and he was rather amused because right before that i was complaining about annoying ri geppers. hoho. and then he said we should apply to the same colleges because "that'll be great" and how my parents reacted. that itself, is a whole story by itself. etc, etc.
and he wears ferragamo. but i figured if u own a company with at least 50 staff, you'd probably ferragamo as well. or some other equivalent.

and back to the other story. everything's fine and dandy now. or so i hope. my parents just have to get used to it.

yikes. i must wake early tmr.

hello.
it's war over here. how scheming my mom can be. but of course, that means i'm not that dumb either.
met up with wrong. and it's great to have someone to talk everything about. from the very explicit to regular stuff. it was a short outing but very pleasant. it's been a while since i've just talked, with no boundaries or any of those. so if u're reading this wr haha, thanks for hearing me whenever i run into kooky situations like that. hoho.so here's cheers to being a great friend, even though we dont go out or do things to tgt often at all. but its okayyy.
my left eye keeps twitching. it means something bad is going to happen isnt it?
oh well.
as if it didnt already happen.
and i missed the team outing to macritchie because i was working. how sad is that.

oh fuck. i'm the world's most unluckiest person
and right now, the world's most annoyed.

tmr is my off day! yayness.
okay. so i forgot thurs was meeting day and there were a whole slew of meetings. which were so boring i nearly died. at first they asked me to learn how to take minutes. but i was thinking to myself, i've done so many minutes for pw already this should be easy.
so then i sat beside shumei to see her take minutes. and woah, there's format too! i thought minutes were anyhow. like pw. hoho. clearly not.
and i'm still very unused to the fact that we are referred by our initials in official matters. and i'm terrible at names, much less intials, where all i see are a lump of letters that dont make sense.
so i gotta learn all the math&science teachers intials pretty soon!
cheryl and laura applied to TLL too. haha. yay i'll see more familiar faces. and maybe i wont feel as lonely.
oh yes, and michigan has finally received my other rubbish. but they still think i'm poor! darn.

hello,
working life is not fun. the first few days, u feel empowered. but after that it just gets dull. yesterday i made my first real blunder. hoho. so i ended up runnign in and out of the office tower, the security guard must have thought i was insane.
meanwhile i still dont have friends at work. the other 2 new temps have been transferred to finance. so it's back to square one for me at the msru. but they're getting a new one by the end of this month. so i'm hoping she's nice and friendly.
and today's a public holiday, meaning i dont have to work! i'm delighted. working life sucks.
hopefully i get to go out today. depending on circumstances. need to get some cny clothes.
sleepy. slept late and woke up early. rahh.

i feel like eating japanese crackers.

upset!

i'm very upset!
i got rejected by lse math&econs. and everybody tells me uk schools are damn easy to get in. so now i'm very upset. the econs one is still pending. but math&econs is easier to get in than econs by itself, so i can just forget abt the other one.
but i think i didnt get math&econs because i didnt mention anything math in my statement. i thought the subjects i did spoke volumes, but clearly not.
and then my stupid us applications are damn screwed up. upenn keeps saying that i'm applyin for financial aid. and i dont know what to do with all the financial forms. and michigan says that i havent sent anything, well except my personal form. and all my teachers sent my recommendations already.

urgh.

and i cant develop photos!

am extremely sad.
:(

chinatown

met with my michelle today, at ps first. ate at tcc. i had lovely salmon linguine. twas good. and she bought me david & goliath mug and pencil. which were damn cute and i really like it. i bought her body wash from natural source.

so we talked and talked for 2hours plus at tcc. abt her london trip, prom, unis, our sec school days, our work experience at william lai last time, other classmates etc. then we hopped over to chinatown. to visit her friends who worked at a very edgy boutique at club street. but the things there cost a bomb. and apparantly the day before denise keller was there to buy a bathing suit that was some three hundred bucks. and fiona xie too. too bad nobody was there when we came.

and we discovered the loveliest dessert shop ever along the streets of chinatown. the menu of desserts was really long and we took some half hour to decide our food! ahha. so we settled on fried ice cream and mango ice. i'm gonna go back when i have more money. we were sad beings with little cash on us today. but go to temple street for you desserts!

and i just got my first issue of national geographic. replaced newsweek with nat geographic because newsweek is really boring. american politics and all. like i give a damn.

off day feels really nice.
okay i changed my blogskin. will make the other changes soon. when i dont feel lazy. i dont like the woman's head sticking out. i feel like chopping it off. but then again, a beheaded woman wont look great either.
okay meeting mich later!

rahhhhhhhh!

helooooooooo. i'm in the office now. but i'm not skiving. i've finished whatever i have to do today. hoho. now i'm just waiting for time to pass so i can leave. anyway. i sauntered into work today then i saw kevin, yonghui's friend, at the MSRU. and so he was here to help out with the volcano project. and maybe by next week glendalee will be here too. but i wont see her much if she's involved in the proj as well.
and i got my official contract today. apparantly i wasnt supposed to disclose my salary and what not but i told like some 10 pple already. ahha.
work's boring. i finished my stuff at 7. so i hafta wait till 8 before i can knock off. so i helped kevin with the stupid volcanoes. and it's damn gross. especially since one of the plasticine i took to mould had weird oily gross things all over. now my hand still reeks of plasticine. ee.
yay. i think i might be meeting michelle tmr. i havent seen her in a really long time! and tmr's my free day. so once it's 8 i'll skip out of the office happily. although now i'm starving.
there's nobody in my department now! some knocked off at 6 already. jen and kevin have gone off for the volcano project. belinda's here, but she's damn busy. so nobody can see i'm blogging! haha.
oh, they provided me with a lot of new stationary!
and there was a blackout today. gosh i walked 8 storeys up and my thighs were dying la. haha.
alright, gotta go.

genting.

first day today! it's damn boring. my work is so boring. but i think maybe it's just the first day. i'm just typing worksheets. inserting diagrams and everything. the formatting is a killer. it's so annoying.
my colleagues are nice, but not exactly friendly.
so far everything's alright. fine and dandy.
except my shoes! i have like 10 blisters on my feet now.
rahhhhhh. all for the money, all for the money.

genting

genting was decent. the rides are quite lousy. and the queues were so long, i didnt even sit through everything. and my go-kart was lousy! so i had one less lap than everybody else.
and because i couldnt gamble, me and my dad just shopped and walked around while the rest headed to the casinoes. oh we watched cheaper by the dozen2! for 10ringgit. movies, food and shoes are really cheap over there. plus, they had their new year's sale or something like that. so the shoes are dirt cheap. my dad and i went to this haunted house thingy. and i was half scared, half amused. and the "ghosts" started chasing the boys behind me so they pushed ahead, trampling all over my feet.
and we ate so much, i have a gigantic tummy now.
andi bought, a pair of hollister shorts, aviators, pouch, 2 pairs of shoes, and a watch. not a lot of stuff. because i dont really dig their clothes there. except the ones from the factory outlets.
genting would have been more fun if u went with ur pals. but alas, i had some fun. after all, my parents paid for all the shopping and food! so that's good. my mom said when we head over to us this april, i'll have to pay for shopping myself!
and hoho, this woman in the bus really riled me. because we stopped over at some food centre, and i was just standing there, sleepy and all, waiting for my parents to buy some coffee. and then this fat, wrinkled filled, with auntie looking shades auntie comes banging into me with coffee in her hands. but the coffee just spilled slightly, and i was like oops sorry! and she comes screaming at me in mandarin. what an ass. so i couldnt really retort in my less than fluent mandarin. so i decided to ignore her. so i rolled my eyes and i muttered siao! but she heard. hahaha. i was quite amused by her reaction

hmm shall put up the photos soon. didnt take much, cuz i wasnt in a photo-taking mood. rahh.
shit, i'm losing my voice, and my work starts tmr!